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Legal & General Group-backed European private debt manager Pemberton, has provided facilities to support the acquisition of Infinigate, a European Value-Added Distributor of cybersecurity software, by private equity firm Bridgepoint.
Infinigate acts as a sales multiplicator between cybersecurity software vendors and resellers, giving vendors market access to more than 10,000 hard-to-reach SME resellers, and providing resellers with a curated portfolio of solutions together with value-added services, such as pre-sales and post-sales technical support. As the further expansion of Infinigate’s footprint across and eventually also beyond Europe is a core element of Bridgepoint’s investment strategy, Pemberton’s financing package includes a sizeable
Arrowpoint Advisory’s Business Services and Debt Advisory teams have advised Queen’s Park Equity (QPE) on the acquisition of Sagacity Solutions (Sagacity), a provider of tech-enabled customer data management solutions.
Founded in 2005, Sagacity offers three core solutions within the lifecycle of its clients’ customers: reducing bad debt, improving revenue & margin and optimising customer value. Sagacity generates impressive ROI for some of the largest utility, telecoms and financial services corporates across territories all over the world.
Anita Dougall, CEO of Sagacity, says: “Organisations are sitting on valuable data and we work in collaboration with them to unlock the potential.
Tricia Ward has joined Redington’s manager research team as a director for private markets as the firm continues to broaden its capabilities across the asset class.
She will report to Head of Manager Research, Nick Samuels, and joins a now seven strong team dedicated to covering alternatives and private markets. In total Redington’s manager research team spans over 22 people. Assets under advisory across the firm stand at over GBP500 billion.
Ward joins from the Greater Manchester Pension Fund where she was a senior investment manager responsible for private credit research and portfolio construction as well as development of
Arcesium, a global financial technology and professional services firm, has launched PerformASM, a performance allocations product designed to simplify the investor accounting process and reduce the risks, costs, and manual errors associated with typical spreadsheet-based fund accounting. PerformA is tailored for different client types, including hedge funds, fund administrators, and private equity firms.
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NPIF – Maven Equity Finance, managed by Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has invested GBP750,000 in Blueberry Therapeutics Limited (Blueberry), a drug discovery and development company focused on developing innovative nanomedicines for difficult to treat skin and nail infections.
The funding will support the business as it embarks on the next set of clinical trials for a new topical antifungal spray for the treatment of onychomycosis using its unique nanodelivery platform technology, as well as progressing other product development lines.
Based at Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Blueberry focuses on developing innovative
Corporate tax specialist Annette Beresford has stepped up to the role of Partner and Head of Tax at Humphreys Law. Beresford joined Humphreys Law in 2018 where she served as a Senior Consultant advising on UK tax aspects of a broad range of M&A and other types of corporate transactions.
Prior to this she spent more than a decade working for major global law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and also Reed Smith, where she worked at the time with HLaw Managing Partner Henry Humphreys. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and the
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, healthcare, industrials, and software industries, has acquired 2020 Technologies Inc (2020) from Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
2020 is a global provider of specialised computer-aided design (CAD), configure, price, quote (CPQ) and enterprise solutions dedicated to interior design, space planning and furniture manufacturing. 2020’s mission-critical applications provide end-to-end solutions designed to optimize efficiency and improve productivity for the Company’s vast global network of customers, which includes more than 50,000 independent kitchen and bath
Drawbridge, a provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to the alternative investment industry, has launched a new module in Drawbridge’s flagship technology platform designed specifically for Private Equity (PE) funds.
The new module gives PE funds a single view to monitor the complete cyber risk profiles of their portfolio companies in real-time. The first offering of its kind in the industry, the module was developed in partnership with Drawbridge clients who have been confronted with a dramatic rise in cyber-attacks on their portfolio companies in terms of both size and frequency.
The accelerating frequency of cybersecurity breaches in
Alex Barr and James Witter have launched Bread Street Capital Partners Ltd (Bread Street), a new investment management business specialising in broadening investor access to global private markets including private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real assets. Between them, Witter and Barr have over 60 years of investment and capital markets experience and have managed or overseen GBP60 billion of private markets assets.
Bread Street will launch private markets portfolios that deliver responsible thematic, financing stage or manager exposures, and focus initially on developing a series of innovative stock-exchange listed private markets funds. Bread Street will also provide complete private
Ace Capital Partners, a private equity firm specialised in strategic industries and technologies and subsidiary of Tikehau Capital, announces today the launch of Ace Aerofondo IV FCR, with SEPI, Airbus, Indra and Tikehau Capital as investors. This new private equity fund will invest in lower and upper midmarket companies active in the Spanish aerospace and defence sector.
Ace Capital Partners will act as manager of the fund, which will invest in both Support Capital (niche players with the ability to grow organically) and Platform Capital (consolidation platforms to become leaders in their markets through external growth) strategies. Ace is currently
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